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Welcome to the fascinating adventure of rediscovering Torah-observing Judaism.

JudaismRediscovered.com, is a site dedicated to the spiritual, social, personal and collective reconciliation of all those who think of themselves as having anything to do with the G-d of Israel. Reconciliation which will take place by paying careful attention to, and taking serious heed of, His Eternal Truth.

We have many articles of great interest to Christians, Messianics or not, who are interested in getting to know and returning to the true Hebrew Roots of their faith, i.e. the Torah (Hebrew word for Instruction). This is the same Torah which the Almighty revealed to the people of Israel through Moses for us to follow and exemplify to the whole world, which is the lifestyle He wants us to live. Some Christians might be surprised to know that this is the same Torah which later on Jesus taught to his disciples at the end of the Second Temple era. But Yeshua's teachings were soon rejected, denied and replaced by Paul of Tarsus and his Gentile followers. They increasingly syncretized the Judaic teachings of Jesus to the absolute point of de-Judaization; and by doing this they created an entirely new Gentile religion, Christianity. We also address the interest of all Jewish people interested in differentiating between the teachings of the Written Torah of Moses and the teachings of the Oral Torah, thereby revitalizing our cultural, religious and spiritual life, which is so fundamental to our Jewish identity. If you are interested in these matters, please, come back. You will not be disappointed. What is required to get benefits from this website is honesty.

I understand that my literary style might be at times somewhat harsh for the taste of some who grew up in a culture different than mine (not more refined, mind you, just different). I call bread the bread, and to the wine I call wine. So, my apologies ahead of time to those who might feel offended. My intention is not to insult anyone, but to tell the truth as I see it. I am not, and do not intend to be, a "politically correct" man because to me that is mere hypocrisy. Neither am I a diplomat, nor intend to be, since diplomacy is the art of artfully lie and subtly suppress the truth while still looking good out of intentions never expressed. If you are looking for some truth in a world full of lies, this is the place for you. On the other hand, I you want finesses and subtleties, here you will get really incensed, and that might not be good for your blood pressure.

I do not want to convince you to think like me, or believe what I do. I just want you to consider what I have to say and then make your own mind. And if in the process you arrive at a totally divergent conclusion than mine, kol hakavod!, you have the right to it. I did the same and I am pleased, and I know the Almighty is too. What is important is not so much what we believe to be true; it is to live our lives with true integrity and straight heart in front of the Almighty. If we do so, He will forgive us of our dumb misunderstandings. Was not David Melech forgiven of more? Having said that, why living our entire lives in delusion?

For many years I was a Christian pastor, and for many more years I was full of many questions that demanded an honest answer. I delayed as much as I could having to face them. For most of my life, out of a deep and unconfessed fear, I neglected the truth that was looking straight into my eyes since I was a child, because since I was a child I had these insistent questions. Unquestionable dogma and semi-answers covered with a thin layer of platitudes the growing body of evidences that were contrary to my identity-defining doctrines. For many decades I hide my face from the blatant contradictions in the New Testament between what Paul of Tarsus postulated and what Torah, Tanakh and even Jesus had said before.

Then one day I preached about the necessity for truth in our lives as a daily way of life and of true worship of the Almighty Who gave us a brain to think and a heart to decide. I felt greatly convicted by my own words, when I refereed to the fear to face the truth that we all humans have. At the end I prayed the most sincere and deep prayer of my life. I confessed right there and then how afraid I was of a truth that would be too deeply challenging, revolutionary, life-altering. I cried like a broken child, from the deepest recesses of my soul, and I asked the Incomparable King of Heaven that He would grant us, and specially me, the power of honesty and spiritual courage to receive His Truth at any cost whatsoever. And did He heard that prayer; and the eyes of some were open; and we learned things we never imagined; and our questions were solidly answered one by one; and we realized that there was no reason to fear or recoil in front of questions that might lead to great changes by means of the truth.

Now, we do not have to play games anymore; neither do we need to fear and hide. We do not feel the need to prove anything to anyone anymore. We are free indeed! Our lives have been deeply enriched and fortified and our understanding of the Almighty deepened. In the meantime, our family lives have been radically changed all the way around. Patience, forgiveness and understanding have become part of our inner lives — and they are not a mere act to impress others and so attract them to our beliefs.

Do we have all the truth? No! Only Adonai has it. As a matter of fact, I don't think that we even need it — neither could we hold it if we would find it. Can we be wrong in things? Absolutely! There is no way for any human to be right at everything. But there are elements of the whole truth that we surely can have — and the more we have, and the clearer, the better.

What is important is not doctrine; what is important is human life in deep connection with the Almighty. Doctrinarianism caused the wholesale murders of the Crusades, the Inquisition, the burning of witches and the not-so-witches, and so many other major horrors in our world. Those who were doing the killing were deceived into thinking that they were doing the "Will of G-d." They were afraid that their opositors could be right. All my life I saw in churches that same vitriolic attitude, most of all inthose who consider themsleves to be "saints", "whole", "pure", "perfect" and those "in power". Only vain hypocrites, who need to defend their own attitudes and positions, would deny this fact.

The problem is that if someone lives for his doctrines, will also kill for them. Only those who forgetting doctrines and human philosophies live for the Author of Life, will extend live to those around them, thus achieving the mitzva of tikkun olam, which is our general duty. I know, I know, that you might say, "But I take my doctrines from the Bible, and nothing else!" But so also says that other son of two human who thinks totally different than you. What makes you think that it is you and not him who is right? Could it be that it is you the one whois wrong, stay, deceived? Are you so blinded by your own pride as to not even contemplate such a possibility, and then find out what is up?

On the other hand, if you are terrified of finding that you might be the one doctrinally wrong, then it is time for you to pray with your entire heart, like I did, to receive courage to look at the truth, and then adjust your life to it. Remember, fear never comes from the Almighty, neither form a truth-holding heart.

In the next few months this site will undergo some changes proper to its preparation. In the meantime this page will be used as a test. Soon many pages replete with important informative articles shall be posted. So, come back again. But, please, be patient because I also need to make a living.

Shalom.

Ya'akov Ben Avraham
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